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Thank you again ABC for a pertinant and provokative conversation and I aplaud the speakers for the elegance with which they have lifted the blanket on white privilege.

This conversation exposes that we have a disonance as a nation between what we think we are and what we do to show what we are when it comes to a fair go.

As someone who loves and lives with a son with a disability I can only say that ability is the same as whiteness in how it operates to exclude people with a disability from education, work and relationships.

The rates of poverty, mental illness and poor health make up 20% of people in the criminal justice system, are homeless and excluded from the social structures that support people to lead a good life.